Books like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
12 books with a reading profile close to The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Contact
by Carl Sagan
philosophy, narrative
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a structured signal originating from the star Vega, transmitted in a sequence of prime numbers.
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Yol
philosophy, narrative
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Road
philosophy, narrative
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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Sea of Tranquility
narrative, science fiction
In 1912, an exiled British aristocrat hears the notes of a violin and a mechanical roar while standing in a remote Canadian forest.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
philosophy, narrative
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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The Solitaire Mystery
philosophy, narrative
Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
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The Anomaly
narrative, science fiction
In March 2021, an Air France flight from Paris to New York flies into a violent storm and lands safely at JFK.
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
narrative, science fiction
Set in a near-future America, the narrative follows a museum curator named Miina who is detained after an algorithmic prediction identifies her as a potential threat to national security.
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The Dreamers
narrative, science fiction
In an isolated college town in the California mountains, a student falls into a deep sleep and cannot be woken.
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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
philosophy, narrative
Ray Smith, a fictionalized version of Kerouac, navigates the contrast between urban jazz parties and the solitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Yakma Zevki
by Ray Bradbury
narrative, science fiction
Yakma Zevki, or Pleasure to Burn, is a collection of sixteen short stories and early drafts that trace the evolution of the concept eventually known as Fahrenheit 451.
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